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Kazakh Equivalent to Chinese Existential Construction

Yang Hong-jian

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Existential construction is a sentence with a verbal predicate which is specially used in Chinese. The distinguishing features of this type of construction first are fixed for(spatio-temporal words+verbal predicate+ noun).Second,special meaning is more focused on the environment to show the existence or disappearance of a cer- tain subject.It doesn’t have to include an action or a comment of a certain theme.There is no existential construction in Kazakh.Yet,it can be replaced by a sentence whose verbal predicate is a noun,or the sentence which structured in adverbial+subject+verbal predicate form. Meanwhile, there are other equivalents according to different situationss.

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Existential construction is a sentence with a verbal predicate which is specially used in Chinese. The distinguishing features of this type of construction first are fixed for(spatio-temporal words+verbal predicate+ noun).Second,special meaning is more focused on the environment to show the existence or disappearance of a cer- tain subject.It doesn’t have to include an action or a comment of a certain theme.There is no existential construction in Kazakh.Yet,it can be replaced by a sentence whose verbal predicate is a noun,or the sentence which structured in adverbial+subject+verbal predicate form. Meanwhile, there are other equivalents according to different situationss.

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Existential construction is a sentence with a verbal predicate which is specially used in Chinese. The distinguishing features of this type of construction first are fixed for(spatio-temporal words+verbal predicate+ noun).Second,special meaning is more focused on the environment to show the existence or disappearance of a cer- tain subject.It doesn’t have to include an action or a comment of a certain theme.There is no existential construction in Kazakh.Yet,it can be replaced by a sentence whose verbal predicate is a noun,or the sentence which structured in adverbial+subject+verbal predicate form. Meanwhile, there are other equivalents according to different situationss.

Key concepts: Predicate (mathematical logic), Sentence, Linguistics, Adverbial, Noun, Existentialism, Atomic sentence, Kazakh

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